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How to improve access to medicines — and how NOT to

                      With the UN General Assembly convening in New York to discuss all manner of policy issues, one high-profile area of debate is the appropriate role of governments and regulators in ensuring that as many people as possible have access to the...

Yes, a financial transaction tax is an awful idea

                      A tax on financial transactions has long been a popular idea on the far left, with the latest proposal for a levy on transactions coming from UK’s Labour Party under the leadership of the unreconstructed Marxist Jeremy Corbyn. However the...

Court ruling makes irrigating farmland risky business

                      A U.S. district court in San Francisco, in its infinite wisdom, has issued a ruling that threatens to make it virtually impossible — or just really, really expensive — for farmers to irrigate cropland. While the ruling currently only...